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Hearthstone |OT8| Elise's Extremely Irresponsible Field Trip To Un'Goro
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Familienoberhauptvogel
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High costed paladin minions need to be busted to be useful at all.
New minion is pretty damn good in a vacuum. You can just drop it on an empty board turn 7 for a sizable taunt, and if you can get the effect off on even some 1/1s its likely worth it.
Warrior card is guaranteed to proc at least once, so I think it will see play in a Goons Warrior deck.
Warrior card is guaranteed to proc at least once, so I think it will see play in a Goons Warrior deck.
So yeah. He's pretty good. He's Sunwalker at its cost plus an extra stat plus a double argent protector battlecry. And he might prompt hard removal like entomb which opens the door for Tirion.
Edit: I cannot read.
Mobius and pet octopus
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For it to be good, you have to be ahead... it's probably pretty bad and maybe it works with the other new cards but I wouldn't count on it.
There is another 6/6 taunt and that is chillwind. It's hard to call chillwind a good minion without it's text and it only gets played outside of dragon decks due to deathrattle synergy with n'zoth.
I think the paladin card is a win more card and doesn't do enough when you're behind. If you really want to give a minion divine shield, then argent protector is more up your alley. Giving 2 minions divine shield is okay but not likely to happen consistently enough. And 6/6 is too understated when it hits only one minion imo. I kind of don't even think it's that great when you hit 2 minions.
Maybe 1 of in a dopplegangster set? Uh, doubt it.
There is another 6/6 taunt and that is chillwind. It's hard to call chillwind a good minion without it's text and it only gets played outside of dragon decks due to deathrattle synergy with n'zoth.
I think the paladin card is a win more card and doesn't do enough when you're behind. If you really want to give a minion divine shield, then argent protector is more up your alley. Giving 2 minions divine shield is okay but not likely to happen consistently enough. And 6/6 is too understated when it hits only one minion imo. I kind of don't even think it's that great when you hit 2 minions.
Maybe 1 of in a dopplegangster set? Uh, doubt it.
Oh crap. Totally read that wrong.
Uhhh
Yeah that's not so great anymore. Suddenly it kind of does need to hit two targets to see value.
Been there done that many times already lol.
Yep. Warrior card is just wow, so bad. 4/3 stats and buffs hand minions in a class that probably doesn't care about that.
The paladin one is very close to being good, but is probably not playable in constructed. Maybe you put 1 of as a value late game drop in an aggro/midrange deck, but even that seems not worth it for that cost when you'd rather have Ragnaros, Sylvannas, & co. Will be great in arena though if you get even 1 divine shield. It will show up too since its only a rare.
The paladin one is very close to being good, but is probably not playable in constructed. Maybe you put 1 of as a value late game drop in an aggro/midrange deck, but even that seems not worth it for that cost when you'd rather have Ragnaros, Sylvannas, & co. Will be great in arena though if you get even 1 divine shield. It will show up too since its only a rare.
BananasWithGuns
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Protector seems decent but Paladin's late game is already overflowing currently which probably means it doesn't see much play.
I am not nearly as pessimistic about Gadgeteer as the rest of you though. I think it's a good card if Warrior gets some meaningful stuff to buff.
I am not nearly as pessimistic about Gadgeteer as the rest of you though. I think it's a good card if Warrior gets some meaningful stuff to buff.
It's nice with Alley Armorsmith. Looking back through this set I think a lot of people might have missed that Alley Armorsmith has synergy with all of these hand buff cards (myself included).
Mobius and pet octopus
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The warrior card could be better than people think, because they too can run dopplegangster.
BananasWithGuns
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It's kind of crazy that we've seen all but one Paladin card and not a single card for Shaman or Warlock.
They're doing the reveal over three weeks with the three gangs, and each gang is class aligned.
They hinted at some rather unusual new playstyle they wanted to push for Shaman, so they're probably trying to hide that for now. Warlock might have one too.
Familienoberhauptvogel
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they can't be serious with this. Not even a good deathrattle, not a single cost efficient control spell, nothing. This set is already a miss unless the neutrals come through.
Brawndo Addict
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Came back to play a bit in my post-election blues, let's try my hand at Arena.
First match: *Rogue Deathwings me and then draws sprint.*
Never change.
Seriously though how is it that so many people who get a legendary in their draft end up being my first match?
First match: *Rogue Deathwings me and then draws sprint.*
Never change.
Seriously though how is it that so many people who get a legendary in their draft end up being my first match?
The Legendary has some potential in control lists. Finja can maybe work as an option to pull the Murlocs from the deck. There is also the (1) 2/2 Deathrattle: Restore 4 Health to both heroes.
But I agree there is not much within the Paladin cards for control achetypes. They went almost all-in on the Buff-Hand style, which makes sense considering the theme of the expansion.
Its seems they think they only give pally control stuff at last 2 xpac, so they just want new pally deck instead supporting the old ones, its like reverse warlock situation, I really hope its slow warlock turn to getting card
Pally never gonna had efficient removal btw.
Familienoberhauptvogel
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Peléo;224027328 said:
Oh I completely missed these two.
That's a great deathrattle actually. It should improve certain matchups considerably.
I'd settle for mediocre removal or some burn that's guaranteed more than 3.
Yep, one to go unless blizzard messes with ratios. Also both mythical slots seem to be dedicated to the new arch type
BananasWithGuns
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All that's left to be revealed for Paladin is one common and the Grimy Goons legendary, Don Han'Cho.
Familienoberhauptvogel
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Paladin is fucked.
This is the first time I have seen Blizzard go all in on a class archetype. Usually they have 2-3 archetypes that they try to support for a class in a big expansion.
Even taking Paladin as an example:
GvG: Support for Token based deck, Midrange, Aggro and Mech. Mech wasn't good enough because Cobalt Guardian was an awful card.
TGT: Pushed Control Paladin with stuff like Enter Colisseum plus some aggro support with stuff like Seal of Champions and that Horserider card. Oh and Secret Paladin support.
Old Gods: Pushed Divine Shield Paladin with Steward and Selfless Hero plus Control Paladin with Forbidden Healing and Ragnaros.
For MSG they are going all in on minion hand buff deck. Sure some of the cards can be used in other Paladin archetypes but you can put ALL of them in a single deck because they all support the hand buff minion archetype.
Even taking Paladin as an example:
GvG: Support for Token based deck, Midrange, Aggro and Mech. Mech wasn't good enough because Cobalt Guardian was an awful card.
TGT: Pushed Control Paladin with stuff like Enter Colisseum plus some aggro support with stuff like Seal of Champions and that Horserider card. Oh and Secret Paladin support.
Old Gods: Pushed Divine Shield Paladin with Steward and Selfless Hero plus Control Paladin with Forbidden Healing and Ragnaros.
For MSG they are going all in on minion hand buff deck. Sure some of the cards can be used in other Paladin archetypes but you can put ALL of them in a single deck because they all support the hand buff minion archetype.
Its likely due to the fact that we will get a another full expansion in 4 months, and these cards are the tail end of the set block.
I hope in the future the individual expansions of set blocks support each other more. It sort of sucks that we will likely never get another C'Thun card, even if that archetype isn't that great.
I hope in the future the individual expansions of set blocks support each other more. It sort of sucks that we will likely never get another C'Thun card, even if that archetype isn't that great.
I prefer the all-in approach. When you split mechanics, it doesn't help any of them. Here's your one Mech, here's your Inspire card, here's a C'Thun card.
A focused theme has a stronger foundation. Actually, I wish there were more Tri-Class cards at play here for this very reason. Only 9 in the entire friggin' set and it's the theme.
A focused theme has a stronger foundation. Actually, I wish there were more Tri-Class cards at play here for this very reason. Only 9 in the entire friggin' set and it's the theme.
Trying to come up with a solid midrange version of Snowballadin. It's actually kind of tough. Here's what I came up with.
http://www.hearthpwn.com/deckbuilde...33:1;49641:2;49662:2;49667:2;49676:1;49677:2;
I don't really like the look of the aggro versions of this deck because it's harder to get value of the grimy goon buffs whenever you are dumping your hand really quickly. Top decking a buffer is awkward. It also starts too slow for aggro I think. If you're aggro you don't want to play a 1/1 on Turn 2.
http://www.hearthpwn.com/deckbuilde...33:1;49641:2;49662:2;49667:2;49676:1;49677:2;
I don't really like the look of the aggro versions of this deck because it's harder to get value of the grimy goon buffs whenever you are dumping your hand really quickly. Top decking a buffer is awkward. It also starts too slow for aggro I think. If you're aggro you don't want to play a 1/1 on Turn 2.
BananasWithGuns
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Dopplegangster is so ridiculous with Evolve that I can't imagine it doesn't become staple either immediately or after the next rotation. 6 mana, two cards to summon three random 6 drops is just nuts. You don't even need to commit to an Evolve deck for that to be a busted combo.
I feel like it's going to run into the same issue as Onyxia in Evolve decks.
A decent enough chance that you get Baron Geddon and/or Acidmaw that just crushes your own board.
BananasWithGuns
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I don't think the goal would be to double Evolve though, unless the 6 drops you get are pure crap. But the 6 mana slot is generally considered the second best after 8 mana.
I feel like it's going to be Shaman's version of Muster + Quartermaster only sacrificing some consistency for a much higher ceiling.
Well, except for Big Time Racketeer.
What's busted about Mistcaller?
BananasWithGuns
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The buff only applies when you draw the card. Was most common with Deathlord but if the card is played from your deck in any way then the buff doesn't apply.
It was supposed to be a persistent buff. Similar to this week's Tavern Brawl. Doesn't matter if you use tracking, pull it from Barnes or you return it to your hand, the Mistcaller buff should still be applied.
I dunno, I'm not looking forward in meeting 6/6 Azure drakes or 7/7 Emperors on curve.
Or a 4/9 taunt give millions of armor by warriors.
Even reading this already not looked impresive
BananasWithGuns
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So thinking a bit more on Dopplegangster and Evolve. The only outright bad results in my opinion would probably be Big-Time Racketeer, Corrupted Seer and Moat Lurker. Even underwhelming stuff like the 4/4's, Kidnapper, etc. isn't all that bad when you're planting three minions on the board. Even if you end up with three 4/4's you're still putting 12/12 worth of stats on the board for 6 mana and 2 cards. Granted it's prone to board clears like Flamestrike but in a lot of instances it probably forces one out as well.
Then you factor in the good stuff like the multitude of 6/6's and the minions with must remove level effects like Kodorider or Illidan along with the absolute bonkers insane stuff like Cairne, Thaurissan, Highmane and Sylvanas and it starts to seem really promising.
I'd have to assume Blizzard tested it pretty extensively so that it's not going to show up on release completely broken but regardless, I'm super hyped for the combo (as if you couldn't already tell).
Then you factor in the good stuff like the multitude of 6/6's and the minions with must remove level effects like Kodorider or Illidan along with the absolute bonkers insane stuff like Cairne, Thaurissan, Highmane and Sylvanas and it starts to seem really promising.
I'd have to assume Blizzard tested it pretty extensively so that it's not going to show up on release completely broken but regardless, I'm super hyped for the combo (as if you couldn't already tell).
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